Hundreds of wetland homes proposed for Easterhouse
May 19 2025
Hundreds of houses within the Seven Lochs Wetland Park are to be built under new plans filed by Avant Homes.
The developer has purchased green field land near Easterhouse, south of Bishop Loch, for the scheme which sits within a network of nature reserves and walking routes east of Glasgow.
Allocated as a residential development location in the City Plan the 16.2 hectare site will present a woodland buffer to the road with new homes following the topography of the land outwith identified flood zones.
In a design statement, the developer wrote: "The choice to reflect a mix of 2-storey and 2 ½ storey height throughout the development was to create interest surrounding corner turner plots, and additionally add to the makeup of the street scene.
"... a good spread has been achieved, with no one house type dominating any specific area. Arranging the plots in this way will enhance street scenes and prevent any regimented, repetitive runs of houses."
249 detached, semi-detached and terraced houses are planned with shared surface feature junctions to integrate pockets of green space. A large open area to the north east will integrate with existing walking routes.
A network of 'buffer' green spaces will connect to surrounding wetlands
The developer has striven to avoid regimented rows of houses
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"Prevent any regimented, repetitive runs of houses" it says.., yet every image provided literally does exactly that!
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I don’t care much about Greenbelt but when there are acres of brownfield directly around it, but in the wrong postcode for selling mass production houses, then that is a problem. Look on the map and you will see almost 100 streets in Easterhouse that were demolished in the 1980-2000 period that have never been rebuilt. Utilities all in place, but Avant and others know the postcode won’t sell as the area was once a slum.
If so there is still hope that such poor designs and destructively unintelligent decisions can be blocked.
Meantime many small, buildable, useful, brownfield, inner-city gap sites not progressing due to drowning in reports and bureaucracy and so still lying derelict
All done while saying that they are 'saving the planet' as well, while somehow managing to keep a straight face....
Avant are the Western Heritable of our time -- poor design / poor detailing / poor externals that will stick out like a sore thumb for decades to come.
Then you have the rat run that Lochend Road has now become -- diverted through the middle of the estate. Some mistake surely given all the issues with road safety / noise / disruption. If this development is to have a future than it cannot be hobbled with the Lochend Road traffic.
In addition you have the many open wounds in the area -- the forgotten ghost streets adjacent to this greenfield site and the open sewers for fly tipping that are Commonhead Road and Lochend Road plus the internal waterfalls onto the books of the Bridge Library.
Could someone please sort out the roof at the Point -- new built less than 20 years ago but with a 10 year history of leaks / litter / lack of care.
As mentioned at the start Easterhouse deserves better.
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